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David Axelrod: Boehner’s ‘unruly children’

It was House Speaker John Boehner’s lack of leadership — not President Barack Obama’s negotiating skills — that caused talks between Obama and Boehner over the fiscal cliff to break down, a top adviser to the president said Friday.

“The big problem wasn’t the president couldn’t agree with Boehner,” David Axelrod said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe. “The big problem was Boehner can’t get his own caucus to follow him. And so, we needed to negotiate with somebody, and that somebody turned out to be [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell.”

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He added, “The problem is Boehner’s unruly children over on the Hill, who he has no control over. They’re having a food fight at every caucus.”

Talks between Boehner and Obama broke down more than a week before the Jan. 1 fiscal cliff deadline. Vice President Joe Biden eventually negotiated a deal with McConnell that dodged or delayed many of the cliff’s most harmful elements while raising taxes on high earners. The deal passed Boehner’s House without the majority support of the GOP Conference.

Nice try Pinko.Boehner's 'unruly children' happen to be the ones who will save this Nation if it is to be saved! Thank God for them.... and may their 'siblings' increase ! one-thousand fold! so this Country can be taken back from the likes of you who seek to destroy it !

I'm torn between laughing at Republicans and feeling a bit melancholy for the days when there was actually a two-party system in this country.

Reminds me of when my kid was on a good Little League team and they were beating up on a weaker opponent. For a while it was fun, then by the fourth inning everyone just felt uncomfortable.

Maybe someone in the GOP can bring these people to their senses. But if the election in November wasn't a wakeup call for everyone to actually sit down and talk about the problems we face, I don't know what possibly make these bizarre Republicans moderate their hard-right ideology which seems to drive everything they say and do.

There is a news flash for Axlenut!! There are a lot of "unruly children" known as Americans that he and his fellow obamacrats had better realize exist out here. The obama zombies are getting closer and closer to finding out just how unruly those "children" can be. "goosestepping" may be in the future for his party of zombies but do not count on America being another Germany just yet.

Exactly! President Obama was seeking a deal that raised taxes, tinkered with entitlements, and I'm sure had some other cuts as he wanted to deal with the sequester. But The GOP caucus in the House is full of insolent nincompoops. Therefore, President Obama walked away and sent in Biden to extract MANY concessions on tax rates. Now they enter into the sequester talks with bargaining chips on further rate increases, tax deductions, capital gains, etc. President Obama is so woefully underestimated it's scary. The funny thing is, repthuglicans are going to have to speak up on their wish list of entitlement cuts. I imagine that will go over like lunch on the Potomac to many Medicare and Social Security recipients. *note sarcasm*

Frankly, I have a much larger concern for comrade's Axelrod and Obama's new neo marxist democrat party then of any "unruly children" in the republican party. After all, it is the neo marxist democrat party steadily steering the country into the socialist nirvana they fanti about. The one where everyone is a brain dead and fully indoctinated drone totally dependent upon a ruling class of "democrats".

The GOP worked so hard to co-opt the Tea Party movement and is now hindered by them. It is eerily similiar to the US arming the mujaddin in Afghanistan to fight the Russians only to have them evolve into today's Taliban.

The GOP turned down the violence on women act proving that their war on women continues. It is especially viral in many Republican controlled states. This is more proof that the republicans will become a fringe party dominated by religious and social zealots.

"unruly children"? What a condescending POS David Axelrod is! He seems to believe that all a member of the House is elected for is to rubber stamp whatever deals the "Leaders" cut. This may be the way it is done in the old Soviet Union, but in the USA the House members are elected to REPRESENT their districts, not bow to the Leadership. The Regime may be ready to rule, but there are 3 co-equal parts to government.